Package: sharand Version: 0.0.20040607-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1.3 User: gnewsense-...@nongnu.org Usertags: gnewsense libreplanet
File main/sha1.c has this license notice: This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than English. To my understanding that means you can extend, but not modify the text/ code in this file. This violates DFSG. It looks like this code was copied straight from RFC 3174. I found a discussion [2] on debian-legal from a few years back that says that RFC texts are non-free (except for the first 1000 or so). A summary about copyright on RFC Editor [3] says that derivative works are allowed, but doesn't go into detail. [1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3174.txt [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/04/msg00223.html [3] http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.17Feb04.html -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
